For the waves of death compassed me; The floods of ungodliness made me afraid:

The cords of Sheol were round about me; The snares of death came on me.

In my distress I called on Yahweh; Yes, I called to my God: He heard my voice out of his temple, My cry [came] into his ears.

Yahweh, in the morning shall you hear my voice. In the morning I will lay my requests before you, and will watch expectantly.

For he has not despised nor abhorred the affliction of the afflicted, Neither has he hid his face from him; But when he cried to him, he heard.

Call on me in the day of trouble. I will deliver you, and you will honor me."

Evening, morning, and at noon, I will cry out in distress. He will hear my voice.

Trust in him at all times, you people. Pour out your heart before him. God is a refuge for us. Selah.

God, you are my God. I will earnestly seek you. My soul thirsts for you, My flesh longs for you, In a dry and weary land, where there is no water.

If I cherished sin in my heart, The Lord wouldn`t have listened.

But most assuredly, God has listened. He has heard the voice of my prayer.

He has responded to the prayer of the destitute, And has not despised their prayer.

Nevertheless he regarded their distress, When he heard their cry.

He remembered for them his covenant, And repented according to the multitude of his lovingkindnesses.

I love Yahweh, because he listens to my voice, And my cries for mercy.

Because he has turned his ear to me, Therefore I will call on him as long as I live.

Blessed are those who keep his statutes, Who seek him with their whole heart.

With my whole heart, I have sought you. Don`t let me wander from your commandments.

For the people shall dwell in Zion at Jerusalem; you shall weep no more; he will surely be gracious to you at the voice of your cry; when he shall hear, he will answer you.

Thus says Yahweh, the Holy One of Israel, and his Maker: Ask me of the things that are to come; concerning my sons, and concerning the work of my hands, command you me.

Seek you Yahweh while he may be found; call you on him while he is near:

There is none who calls on your name, who stirs up himself to take hold of you; for you have hid your face from us, and have consumed us by means of our iniquities.

It shall happen that, before they call, I will answer; and while they are yet speaking, I will hear.

You shall seek me, and find me, when you shall search for me with all your heart.

Call to me, and I will answer you, and will show you great things, and difficult, which you don`t know.

Arise, cry out in the night, at the beginning of the watches; Pour out your heart like water before the face of the Lord: Lift up your hands toward him for the life of your young children, that faint for hunger at the head of every street.

Let us search and try our ways, and turn again to Yahweh.

Let us lift up our heart with our hands to God in the heavens.

"Yet even now," says Yahweh, "turn to me with all your heart, And with fasting, and with weeping, and with mourning."

"When you pray, you shall not be as the hypocrites, for they love to stand and pray in the synagogues and in the corners of the streets, that they may be seen by men. Most assuredly, I tell you, they have received their reward.

But you, when you pray, enter into your inner chamber, and having shut your door, pray to your Father who is in secret, and your Father who sees in secret will reward you openly.

In praying, don`t use vain repetitions, as the Gentiles do; for they think that they will be heard for their much speaking.

"Ask, and it will be given you. Seek, and you will find. Knock, and it will be opened to you.

But this kind doesn`t go out except by prayer and fasting."

Most assuredly I tell you, whatever things you will bind on earth will be bound in heaven, and whatever things you will loose on earth will be loosed in heaven.

Again, assuredly I tell you, that if two of you will agree on earth concerning anything that they will ask, it will be done for them by my Father who is in heaven.

For where two or three are gathered together in my name, there I am in the midst of them."

Jesus answered them, "Most assuredly I tell you, if you have faith, and don`t doubt, you will not only do what is done to the fig tree, but even if you will tell this mountain, `Be taken up and cast into the sea,` it will be done.

All things, whatever you will ask in prayer, believing, you will receive."

He went forward a little, fell on his face, and prayed, saying, "My Father, if it is possible, let this cup pass away from me; nevertheless, not what I want, but what you want."

Therefore I tell you, all things whatever you pray and ask for, believe that you receive them, and you shall have them.

I tell you, keep asking, and it will be given you. Keep seeking, and you will find. Keep knocking, and it will be opened to you.

For everyone who asks receives. He who seeks finds. To him who knocks it will be opened.

The Lord said, "Simon, Simon, behold, Satan asked to have you, that he might sift you as wheat,

but I prayed for you, that your faith wouldn`t fail. You, when once you have turned again, establish your brothers."

Whatever you will ask in my name, that will I do, that the Father may be glorified in the Son.

If you will ask anything in my name, that will I do.

If you remain in me, and my words remain in you, you will ask whatever you desire, and it will be done to you.

In that day you will ask me no question. Most assuredly I tell you, whatever you may ask of the Father, he will give it to you in my name.

Until now, you have asked nothing in my name. Ask, and you will receive, that your joy may be made full.

Yet, looking to the promise of God, he wavered not through unbelief, but grew strong through faith, giving glory to God,

and being fully assured that what he had promised, he was able also to perform.

In the same way, the Spirit also helps our weaknesses, for we don`t know how to pray as we ought. But the Spirit himself makes intercession for us with groanings which can`t be uttered.

He who searches the hearts knows what is on the Spirit`s mind, because he makes intercession for the saints according to God.

Now to him who is able to do exceedingly abundantly above all that we ask or think, according to the power that works in us,

with all prayer and requests, praying at all times in the Spirit, and being watchful to this end in all perseverance and requests for all the saints:

Pray without ceasing.

I desire therefore that the men in every place pray, lifting up holy hands, without wrath and doubting.

Let us therefore draw near with boldness to the throne of grace, that we may receive mercy, and may find grace for timely help.

Therefore he is also able to save to the uttermost those who draw near to God through him, seeing he ever lives to make intercession for them.

Without faith it is impossible to be well pleasing to him, for he who comes to God must believe that he exists, and that he is a rewarder of those who seek him.

But let him ask in faith, without any doubting, for he who doubts is like a wave of the sea, driven by the wind and tossed.

For let that man not think that he will receive anything from the Lord.

Draw near to God, and he will draw near to you. Cleanse your hands, you sinners; and purify your hearts, you double-minded.

and whatever we ask, we receive from him, because we keep his commandments and do the things that are pleasing in his sight.

This is the boldness which we have toward him, that, if we ask anything according to his will, he listens to us.

And if we know that he listens to us whatever we ask, we know that we have the petitions which we have asked of him.